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From: gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: TeX fonts at 300dpi
Message-ID: <12670029@eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: 15 May 89 19:10:53 GMT
Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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Hey, what did you guys use for the 300dpi fonts???  They look more like
240dpi (for some characters, worse).  Are the Metafont parameters correct
for the NeXT engine?

I printed the same .dvi file in 300dpi and 400dpi, and the difference was
very apparent.  For example, in the 300dpi version of cmr10 scaled by
\magstephalf, the top of the upper case C looked more like what you'd
get out a dot-matrix printer (even 9-pin, I think -- it's been a while
since I looked at that kind of output).

I printed the same .dvi file from another computer on an Imagen that uses
the old Cannon engine, using the 300dpi fonts off the Unix TeX distribution
tape, and it came out much better.  You had to look closely to see the
difference between its output and the NeXT 400dpi output.  For example, the
capital C in that same font was a little fuzzier in its mid-section, but
the top was just fine.

What's the scoop?

Jacob Gore				Gore@EECS.NWU.Edu
Northwestern Univ., EECS Dept.		{oddjob,chinet,att}!nucsrl!gore